MEET THE AUTHORS

• Jim Davidson and John Porentas (Glory Years: A Photo History of the New Era in Ohio State Football), 7 p.m. Wednesday, Barnes & Noble, 1739 Olentangy River Rd.

Jim Tressel's teams have beaten Michigan six out of seven tries, averaged 10 wins a season and played in three national title games, winning one. Photographer Davidson and writer Porentas capture the magic.

Folks told Tyler "Tank" Whaley of Ironton he was too small and too slow to play football at Ohio State. He walked on, was left out of the 2003 team photo, then earned a scholarship and played in the 2007 run to the Big Ten title. Dispatch sportswriter Gordon tells "what can happen when someone sets his mind to something others told him was impossible."

Fox is a poet and founder of the Institute for Poetic Medicine; Johnson, a children's author; Kelly, the Eudora Welty professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin; and Kercheval, an author and a co-director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.